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TimThumb and WordPress Blog Performance

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:42:22 +0000

There is no doubt that Timthumb is an awesome piece of PHP script to help with on-the-fly resizing of images for websites and blogs. Originally written for a WordPress theme, it’s been already exploited by 1000s of magazine style WordPress themes. However, many theme designers are using the timthumb script quite negligently that the blog [...]

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Bye Bye Facebook

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:49:09 +0000

It’s been two years since I stopped using Twitter as a medium to actively promote my ideas. At the moment, my twitter usage is restricted to tweeting about any relevant (not all) blog posts alone. And I must say that I never found twitter that interesting and hence didn’t really miss it. My facebook affair [...]

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Blog Private Ads: Are they any Good for Advertisers?

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:49:16 +0000

Over the past two months I spent $285 on private ad spots alone on various blogs in order to drive my holiday season marketing campaigns. I was primarily using the BuySellAds network to buy banners. Most bloggers know that they can make money from BuySellAds as publishers. But are they any good for your own [...]

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Holiday Season Online Marketing Tips

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:53:41 +0000

The US online spending this year’s holiday season (Nov – Dec) was at its peak with Americans spending $35 billion (Nov 1 to Dec 26, 2011). This figure has gone up from $30 billion from last year by 15% and the biggest online sale day this year was the Cyber Monday where $1 billion was [...]

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Top PPC Advertising Networks Comparison

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:57:02 +0000

Over the past two years, I have spent close to $3,500 on PPC Advertising. Of course, that kind of spending resulted in decent returns but the reality is that, only 3 ad networks out of the 8 or 9 that I tried, actually returned anything significant. Based on my experience, here’s a table that contain [...]

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Social Trading in Online Forex gaining Momentum

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:55:58 +0000

Online Forex trading, though very easy to get started, is not so easy to master. A lot of people who want to make instant money, directly start with the online forex tools without having done their homework and end up losing money. In the good old times, there was always a broker, market analyst or [...]

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(Not Provided) keyword in Google Analytics

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:37:43 +0000

In the past month or so, you must have noticed something strange about your keywords search analytics data under your Google Analytics account! There is now a (not provided) keyword sitting right on top of your keywords data and probably, by now, it’s your top searched keyword. The number against ‘not provided’ basically tells you [...]

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How Photography can Help Bloggers?

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:40:13 +0000

I finally decided to go for a DSLR (in fact bought one earlier this month) after realizing that I have been spending a lot of money on purchasing stock images for my content publishing purpose. The idea behind this investment is to check whether I get to take some good images that are worth publishing [...]

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Top SEO Tips from Practical Experience

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:13:00 +0000

In the recent Google Page Rank update, this blog was upgraded to PR4. One could always argue that whatever numbers that you see on the Google Toolbar or PR checker tools don’t matter much. The fact, however, is that Google keeps updating these numbers and along with that a number of your internal page ranks [...]

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Social Media Optimization – A Case Study of Great Onsite SMO

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:25:55 +0000

Social Media Optimization (SMO) is a rather new buzzword as compared to SEO or SEM. However, many of us – involuntarily or knowingly – already get involved in many of the social media optimization activities such as social sharing and promotion widgets, social login and discussion plugins etc. But, is that all what SMO is [...]

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Google Panda Update: All that you Wanted to Know!

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:56:34 +0000

Google Panda updates are probably the biggest talk of the town among webmasters and bloggers. A huge number of websites have been already affected by Panda updates by Google during 2011 that targets websites that Google considers as content farms. By the way, Google Panda updates are nothing but a series of algorithmic tweaks (one [...]

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Do Social Networks affect Your Blogging?

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:01:55 +0000

Social networks like Facebook are excellent channels – only next to Search Engines – to promote your content and network with fellow bloggers, readers and other prospects. However, overdose of anything can harm your main goals and Facebook for example is a great time killer whereby your productive time for your main activities is eaten [...]

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Theme Sponsorship: The Best Backlink Building mechanism yet

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:43:44 +0000

If you ask me which is the best and safest link building mechanism available out there, I would say it’s theme or template sponsorship. Yes, sponsoring a WordPress or Blogger (or other) theme can fetch you 100s of quality backlinks from a large number of domains in no time and it has several other advantages [...]

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AdSense Affiliate Themes – ClickBump Engine Review

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:20:02 +0000

In the past few weeks, I had several reader queries – on Facebook and via Email – as how to build those Google Sniper sites or a 4-5 page WordPress blog pretty quickly and run it for life without any further maintenance effort. It is time to reveal all those secrets and this post is [...]

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SEMRush.com Review & Promo Code

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:26:47 +0000

I came across SEMRush.com earlier this year when I was in search of keyword phrase based domain names for my sniper sites. Needless to say, I readily fell for it and I have been using SEMRush’s competitor analysis capabilities since then for getting ideas on registering niche domains, publishing a post or even to drive [...]

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Facebook Insights for Your Domain

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:27:27 +0000

With a lot of blogs and websites integrating Facebook social plugin for comments, like and send buttons, it is important that you get an overview of how many people like, visit, comment or share your pages. To get all those social analytics details Facebook Insights is what you need which can provide deeper insights on [...]

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Google Analytics Async & Google Plusone Async: Make your blog Load Superfast!

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:46:16 +0000

Have you recently taken your blog for a performance test with Pingdom tools? If not, I suggest that you do it right now and focus on those javascript social widgets that contribute to the increased page load time. The main culprits typically are: Google Plusone widget Google Analytics code (older one) Facebook like button … [...]

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Page Speed Optimization of your Website

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:17:21 +0000

I am a person who is obsessed with application performance – be it web applications, desktop or mobile apps, I really get frustrated if screen refreshes take longer especially due to bulky code written by web developers and non-optimized images getting included in web pages. When it comes to tuning my blogs or websites for [...]

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What is VPS Hosting and When to move to VPS?

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:59:06 +0000

Last month this blog moved from shared hosting to VPS hosting by the same service provider (HostGator). It has been a long pending decision for me because the number of mini-blogs and sites that I manage has been increasing every month and the performance of my shared web server has been heading south. Basically, I [...]

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Yahoo Fails Again and Why?

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:20:47 +0000

I still clearly remember that Yahoo was the very first URL that I browsed in my Internet Explorer 1.0 (or beta release?) browser way back in 1995. I had just joined my first job and was all excited about the Internet access that was provided to us after 5PM every day through a single dedicated [...]

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